Parents, Families and School Community 

Schools are centres of learning, workplaces, and community hubs. Everyone involved in a school community deserves to be treated respectfully and equally, and has a responsibility to behave in a way that promotes values of respect and gender equality. 

There are a number of ways parents, families, and the wider school community can make change in schools by modelling, living and promote gender equality and make change in schools: 

• Work proactively as a school community to support gender equality and respectful relationships. 

• Communicate with, and engage, families and the wider school community to proactively prevent gender-based violence and support respectful relationship education. 

• Establish a program of gender equality and respectful relationship- focused activities within the school and school community 

• Forge partnerships between your school and organisations in your wider community that provide education about the prevention of – and response to – violence against women.